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Jevic shuts down; cites high fuel prices, operating costs
High fuel, insurance prices and a slumping economy has forced the Delanco, 
NJ-based carrier Jevic Transportation to shut down operations.
The less-than-truckload carrier has more than 1,100 trucks and more than 
1,200 drivers.
In a press release on the company Web site, president David Gorman stated 
that Jevic stopped accepting shipments on Monday, May 19. The company will 
deliver anything that�s already in the pipeline before closing down 
completely.
Employees who had insurance through the company lost their insurance 
effective Monday, according to a letter to employees.
The former SCS Transportation Inc., which was based in Kansas City, MO, 
sold Jevic in 2006 to an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners Inc., a private 
investment firm.
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    @alprovaNS: ""realitytrucker" <reality,trucker.> wrote in
news:<email_address>: 
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Well, I'm really unsure why my decision to post the subject title I
choose when I post something is an issue with you, but I am free to put
whatever I choose in that subject box, am I not? 
I certainly quoted the article title properly inside the message itself,
so what's the big beef? 
I hardly think that Jevic shutting it's doors is an indication of the
state of our economy. 
It merely indicates the underlying fact that the company didn't have
it's act together, and is unable to survive due to it's business
practices. 
I have every sympathy for any driver displaced as a result of Jevic
closing it's doors, but every last one of those drivers will find
gainful employment elsewhere. 
When there are no ads out there placed in every last publication
dedicated to the trucking industry, THEN we can talk about how bad
things are getting. 
As it is, there are too many empty trucks due to companies like Jevic,
who grew too fast, did not sustain their operations to maximize
profitablity, and tried to take a larger slice of the pie than they
could eat. 
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    @alprovaNS: ""realitytrucker" <reality,trucker.> wrote in news:Ue2dneH9rOgRo6
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I see the resident troll decided to nymshift again.
I should have known....
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    @realitytrucker: "news:<email_address>
Tony, we know the economy is bad and getting worse but why can't you just
post info without altering the subject from the URL that you posted?"
    @mikcob: "On Mon, 19 May 2008 23:06:02 -0600, The Honorable Dr. Rocky Roads
<quote>
There is a surplus of trucks and drivers.  I don't know about experienced
drivers with good clean records but there is an overabundance of new
drivers.  And there are going to be a lot of really good used trucks on
the market by the fall.  The only way the companies can survive is to do
all they can to cut fuel consumption and driver pay.  It is all tied to
the huge price increases in oil over the last year.  It is not actually a
supply demand problem.  That would account for $3.25 michaela52@example.org.  What
this is, is an unregulated futures market with a lot of excess dollars in
the hands of the financial sector.  They be playing poker with the
contracts.
I see yer 1000 barrels and raise you another 1000.  You can't call the
bet?  We don't do "table stakes". You know the rules. Gimme the deed to
yer ranch. 
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
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    @wookiee: "news:<email_address>
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It could be something that simple.  I've heard of another company that has
been growing pretty fast, adding trucks and drivers and now all the sudden
they decided not to get 3 new trucks.  But, there might be something with
Jevic that we don't even know about.
Talking about the "price of fuel."  I drive by the World's Largest Truckstop
all the time and for once the price at the Pilots was 2� higher than the TA.
Normally they are the same price or maybe the Pilots are just under the TA.
Or maybe the TA was getting ready to raise their prices in an hour.  It
seems to go up every time I drive by the place.
BTW I heard rumor that three more companies are turning their trucks down.
The rumor is CREngland is turning their trucks down, JBHunt is turning their
trucks down and there is one local company that is turning their trucks
down.  Sad thing about the local company is the drivers fought to get them
turned up from 62 mph and now they are going down to 60 mph."
    @alprovaNS: ""The Honorable Dr. Rocky Roads Presiding Judge" <email_address> wrote
in news:<email_address>: 
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Rocky Roads responded with: 
Jevic is like a whole bunch of companies out there, that have been 
approaching their trucking businesses as if they were betting on craps.
They want to grow their companies by buying trucks, hiring drivers, and 
continuously churning people in and out of their doors because that has 
worked for years. Smart companies know the secret to true profitability.
If you own a convenience store and you average selling twenty loaves of 
bread a day, why would you keep 60 loaves on the shelves? Running any 
business is tricky. But you have to be constantly aware of what you 
average in revenue and sales, and you have to keep your button on all 
the factors at all times that assure profitability.
For instance, when you buy trucks to expand your fleet, then you hire 
drivers to operate them, isn't it just as important to see to it that 
you keep those drivers busy enough, as well as happy enough, to stick 
around for awhile? Of course it is. But that's where most of these 
companies fail.
They concentrate so hard on on taking care of the customer, and bowing 
to the damands of the customer, that they forget that there is an 
equasion, or flip side to that coin they are tossing into the air. For 
sure, without customers, there is no business, but at the same time, if 
you piss off your drivers in large numbers by only worrying about the 
customer, then you still have lose business, because your scrambling for 
drivers all the time.
How many drivers have had planned time off diverted or canceled because 
the company had this "hot load", that just had to be taken care of 
"first"? I'll bet that practically all of you have. How many times have 
drivers had to threaten to quit to get results out of a dispatcher who 
was only interested in how long before he or she could head home? I'm 
sure that most all drivers have had to drop that card on the table too, 
and probably more than once. How many drivers have had to sit for what 
seemed like eternity, for a dispatch or a response from a company, 
losing time and patience repeatedly? Everyone has seen that too.
Much of the problem with companies out there, is that they quite often 
forget that there is a real, live person at the other end of that 
computer screen. It's just a number to them. They hire kids out of 
college, and hand them the responsibility of managing the workload of 
sometimes several dozen people at a time. Drivers quit over these very 
issues on a daily basis. 
Jevic was a heavy advertiser. Their ads ran everywhere. They constantly 
needed drivers. And make no mistake - every time a company replaces 
drivers, it costs them money. Money that could be used to augment the 
higher fuel prices they are claiming today that killed them.
For the past two decades, companies have placed drivers in last place, 
to other factors that made up their business models. It's never been a 
big deal to them if they churned drivers, because there was always a 
steady supply of applications rolling in, as a result of their heavy 
handed advertisements, full of clever slogans, empty promises, and come-
ons that drivers swallowed, hook, line, and sinker.
But this is going to change. This careless attitude that will eventually 
plague many trucking companies, and some of the biggies too, combined 
with the fact that the driver pool of qualified drivers is aging - 
rapidly. Our younger generation is not interested in being away from 
home for long periods of time, and they are not entering this industry 
in great numbers. So at some point, the driver pool is going to 
dramatically shrink due to attrition. I estimate it to start within the 
next ten years. Look at the age of the average driver when they park 
nezt to you in a truckstop. We're not spring chickens anymore.
The trucking companies that will survive, are going to be those that not 
only are careful about who they hire, but they will do their level best 
to keep those drivers for years at a time. There's no secret to how to 
go about doing this. It's rather simple. You consider them human, and 
not as machinery. You make promises and keep them. You consider them on 
the same level as you do your customers. You take care of the freight 
you can handle, and do one of two things with the overflow. You say no, 
and let someone else take it this time, or you set up a brokerage 
division to keep the business headed your way, and place extra loads in 
the care of reliable companies that need those loads from time to time 
to keep their drivers busy, or to get them home.
With very little exception, the company I work for takes every pallet of 
freight under one condition. They will get it there by a set date, 
usually five days out, and it will be done legally. "Hot freight" is not 
in their vocabulary.
Every time a driver is replaced by a company, they will fork out two 
grand or more, in recruiting them, hiring them, familiarizing them to 
the way the company operates, and then getting them up to speed to once 
again making a profit. Those that continue to churn drivers, had better 
start making plans to do something else, like making buttermilk, because 
they are going to be left out in the cold for sure. It's only a matter 
of time. 
If there was ever a need to slow down those trucks, the cost of fuel is 
that one reason.
I have voluntarily slowed mine to an average of 60 mph. I expect them to 
slow ours to at least 65 mph soon.
Every last vehicle out there should be doing 55 mph. But that isn't 
going to happen anytime soon, in spite of the fact that I've been seing 
more and more trucks AND cars going far less than posted speed limits in 
the past month or so. 
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    @JoyceInGates: "Gee.
last year we spent $37,000. dollars on
fuel......this year don't really know the
figure..haven't looked at the statement.
but the loads have gone down,
seems to me there is a problem here.
everyone was working 5 to 7 days, of
course watching the hours....to remain
legal.....recently we find were working
3 or 4 days.....
It's no happy medium, the holidays
kept us busy last year, hope they do
this year.....everyone you talk to say's
the same thing,,,,loads are not coming
as much as last year,,,,guess the economy is feeling the crunch......
Oh yes, the tornado in Suffolk, Va. well
it tore many trees down,and some houses
in the way...crossed over the traffic
and took the entire roof of a new buildiing
off. missed the Sentara Hosp. only one
window was blown in....lucky..them.
and politely went on it's joourney to eliminate the houses in Suffolk,
an
entire neighborhood is down, trees,
and cars, what a horrible sight to see
and you can't do a thing to stop it....
unbelieveable....joyce"
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